Word: memorabilia
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Erasmus' Doodles. All of this makes Kitaj (pronounced Ki-teye) pop's most literary painter. After soup cans and Cinemascopic cartoons, critics found his collages of madcap memorabilia, portraiture and complex puns refreshing. In 1963, London's Times even went so far as to declare that his first one-man show had put "the whole new wave of figurative painting in this country in perspective." This left up in the air the question of how much of Kitaj's charm lies in his witty verbal byplay, how much in his agile draftsmanship and startling colorism. Last week Kitaj was back...
...College of Art, he has filled his paintings with medals, badges, fancy lettering, pinups, comic strips (he incorporated one in a 1957 painting), athletes,, pop singers from Elvis to the Beatles. Unlike U.S. pop artists, whom he believes (incorrectly) to be harsh satirists, Blake packs his pictures with instant memorabilia as lovingly as a Victorian might press flowers in his family Bible. Married to a California beauty, he has been chosen to teach mural painting at the Royal College, where, he says, avant-garde students "already think of me as trad...
...from 1933 to 1956, the heroes changed actors dozens of times. There were three Lone Rangers, two of whom are still alive and collecting royalties. Unfortunately for scores of actors who might otherwise be cashing in on the reruns, no one ever bothered to keep recordings of such microphone memorabilia as Buck Rogers, Jack Armstrong, or even Little Orphan Annie; if any exist, there are not enough to put together a series...
MONTANA. Cowgirls and cowpokes go drawling and poking around the lodgepole corral. There is a museum with memorabilia of the Old West and a rootin'-tootin' nickel arcade complete with player pianos, games and peep shows...
...overseeing the entire fund-raising effort is Attorney General Robert Kennedy, who was scheduled to appear this week at the Manhattan opening of an exhibit of J.F.K. memorabilia, including the late President's rocking chair, and to urge more contributions. Well in advance, he had told his staff that he would accept no radio or television engagements that did not have to do with the library...